Record.



0.11. PAJBN.

RECORD. .LPPLIUATIOH FILED H1125. 1910.

Patented Dec. 13,1910.

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OTTO J. FAJEN, OF STOVER, MISSOURI.

RECORD.

Specification ot Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 13, 191.0.

Application filed July 28. 1910. Serial No. 574,289.

1.192011; ii mir-y concern: i known that I, Offro J'. FAJEX, :i eitizen of the lnitt-d States, ri iig :it Stover, g in the muntje ot' Morgan, State of filiesonri. have invented Certain new :ind useful iniproveinents in Records: and I do ierehv dechire. the toliowing to he :i full, elezir. and g exact desoription of the invention. Siieh as will enable others Skilled in the art to which i apnertziins to make and nee ih This invention relates to reeoi le for sound reproducing; martin-'1s and partirolarly that type of records which are tabular i in forni. The object of the. invention iS to provide i a sound record of this type with :i pair of sound grooves starting repeetively at 0pposit'e ends of the record; and in 'farther providing Said moord with ai bore tapering frein each end toward its renier Whereby `Janie. muy be reversihly iiioiinted upon a holder in ordei-to seat :i style in the starting! rnd of either groove' Nitti these and other ohjetrlsin vier( the y invention Consists in the details of eonsti'iicl tion and in the :ii'rangeii ent and roiniiination of parts sis will be hereinafter more fully de eribed an;l particularly pointed ont i in the appended claim. i ln describing the invention in Adetail i'eferente will he had to the :iei'onipanving drawings wherein like rhararters of :'ettr ence denote eorresponding parts in the evi eral vier.' and in Which.-

Figure l is a vperspective vien' of a tubo f lar record conetrnrted in aeeordante ivith the invention; and. Fig. 2. :i longitudinal set-tion of same.

Hefrrring to the drawiiigfa. the rei-ord is i shown as rovided with a pair of siiliftan- I `tiall'v n .lel Sound gfroovoe: ld :ind I. the groove it? storting at one-end 'of the vliniler. while the groove 11 .starts :it the other i eind of the vliiidei. Tite termination ofi the. `groove l0 is inward of the starting end of the'groove ll and is separated therefrom reproducing; iiiat'hiiii: so that the style-'of the l. iiiz'ivhine may he seated in the starting end ofeither of the grooves l( and 11, theV bore of the vlinder is tapered :rom each end to- Y Ward its center; such construction enabling the cylinder 'to be'reatlily reversed upon the holder ot a machine as will be ap- 1 parent.

By terminating one groove inward of the startinglr end of the other groove and separating such termination, of one groove troni the Starting end of the other by a phi ality of eoiivoliitions of the. hitter` the operator enabled to seat the style of the machine 'with (certainly in :i desired groove.

ll'liat is Claimed is:

A tiihiilar sound record havin;r thereon a pair of iihstiiiitizilly parallel gro veri beginnin t at opposite endh of iid `record respectively. ihe termination of one groove hein;y disposed inward and separated from the liegiiiiiing of the other Amove liv a plurality of i-oiivoiiitions ot' the hitter :ind mid record :rho timing its hore tapered i'i'oni ezirli end toward itx renter whereby the leonie may be reversihlv nioiiiiied on a holder in order to i seat :i style in the tartingf end of either Q groove.

In tei tinioiiY whereof. I :iflix iny Signaliirr. iii presriire of two witni-es.

OTTO FAJEN.

Vi'itneSfes L. b'. Ilxriimlv, H. L. FUlon. 

